Adaptive Memory: Evaluating Alternative Forms of Fitness-Relevant Processing in the Survival Processing Paradigm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Sandry, Joshua ^a   Trafimow, David ^a   Marks, Michael J ^a   Rice, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MEMORY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; FITNESS RELEVANT PROCESSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INCEST; INFIDELITY; JEALOUSY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOBIA; PLEASANTNESS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; JEALOUSY; MALE; MEMORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SURVIVAL; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876050028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060868     Document Type: Article

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